I've been looking at getting two Western Digital WD1600YS drives for a RAID
0.
The WD1600YS is 160GB, 16MBs cache, 5 year warranty and .2ms faster access
time then other 7200RPM WD drives.

While recovering from a C drive crash we inadvertently removed the partion
from the D drive.
We have not done anything else to D, no format or anything.  It still shows
as D in Windows Explorer but a message comes up that it needs to be

Hi... we are considering storing images in our database and the number
of images can be quite large...
So the other option is to store the  images as files and point to them
from the DB...

I have been making a fusion between 2 partitions and went i go to see
an error ocurred and know my data is lost, can i recover or fix it. ?

Hi, I'm hoping someone here has some El Torito experience. I'm using
mkisofs to burn a bootable CDROM of the colorForth operating system as
if it were a 1.44MB floppy. I could probably get it to work by setting
-boot-load-size to the full image, but for various reasons I'd like to

Has anyone had any experience with SAN solutions for use with both
Apple and PC infrastructures? So far i've looked at Apple Xsan's and
Equallogic SAN's. Any help would be greatly appriciated!
Thanks,

Hey Everyone -
I'm working on a presentation on virtualization in the enterprise for
my team.  I was wondering if any of you would mind offering some
personal insight / experiences with either server or storage

bloody SATA connectors (electrical)!
i've come across connection issues
with my (admittedly limited) use
of SATA drives, both data and power,

I'm currently using a Seagate 300GB SATA-II 7200.9 as my boot drive.
I just picked up a WD Raptor 74GB (WD74ADFD) to replace it as the boot drive
(will use a new install of Win XP Home OEM).
But would it be better(faster) to just get two 160GB SATA-II 7200RPM hard

I recently bought a Hitachi 7K100 7200 RPM HDD for use on my IBM
Thinkpad R51.  It's been working without problems, but when I ran a
benchmark test in HD Tune it produced some strange results.  It at a
pretty high transfer rate, but periodically it dipped extremely low

we have setup snapvault schedules during night for all volumes. There
are 10 primary filers those are snapvaulted during night.
Some time, some of the qtree fails to update so during morning I need
to update those by corresponding snapshot.

I am exploring SAN options at the office and keep reading that EMC is
the best. I am not doing FC, but am looking at a CX300i. How good is
this product compared to the cheaper HP, Lefthand, and other options?
Is their reputation worth the extra cost for maintenance, support, and

What is a good tool to remotely monitor disk usage (actual blocks used
and free space) for storage hosted by a Linux server?  Perhaps a tool
with some graphical usage summary?  Monitoring the data via CIFS and
NFS shares will not work in our environment that well since some

I'd like to plan a new storage solution for a system currently in
production.
The system's storage is based on code which writes many files to the
file system, with overall storage needs currently around 40TB and

Quick question: Given that it is now possible to have software-based
RAID arrays which are able to be grown using mdadm on Linux, what
advantage, if any, does LVM actually provide?
And yes, I am aware that the filesystem does not grow with mdadm's